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From: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>,
	Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
	David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
	Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>, Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@intel.com>,
	Zhi Wang <zhi.wang.linux@gmail.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Subject: [PATCH v4 5/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for mmu_valid_gen into kvm_mmu_page
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:45:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230912184553.1887764-6-mizhang@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230912184553.1887764-1-mizhang@google.com>

Add the description for mmu_valid_gen into kvm_mmu_page description.
mmu_valid_gen is used in shadow MMU for fast zapping. Update the doc to
reflect that.

Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
---
 Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
index 4a82fa016833..16d5d6a1c174 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
@@ -208,6 +208,16 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information:
     The page is not backed by a guest page table, but its first entry
     points to one.  This is set if NPT uses 5-level page tables (host
     CR4.LA57=1) and is shadowing L1's 4-level NPT (L1 CR4.LA57=0).
+  mmu_valid_gen:
+    The MMU generation of this page, used to fast zap of all MMU pages within a
+    VM without blocking vCPUs too long. Specifically, KVM updates the per-VM
+    valid MMU generation which causes the mismatch of mmu_valid_gen for each mmu
+    page. This makes all existing MMU pages obsolete. Obsolete pages can't be
+    used. Therefore, vCPUs must load a new, valid root before re-entering the
+    guest. The MMU generation is only ever '0' or '1'. Note, the TDP MMU doesn't
+    use this field as non-root TDP MMU pages are reachable only from their
+    owning root. Thus it suffices for TDP MMU to use role.invalid in root pages
+    to invalidate all MMU pages.
   gfn:
     Either the guest page table containing the translations shadowed by this
     page, or the base page frame for linear translations.  See role.direct.
-- 
2.42.0.283.g2d96d420d3-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-12 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-12 18:45 [PATCH v4 0/6] Update document description for kvm_mmu_page and kvm_mmu_page_role Mingwei Zhang
2023-09-12 18:45 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for guest_mode in kvm_mmu_page_role Mingwei Zhang
2023-09-12 18:45 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] KVM: Documentation: Update the field name gfns and its description in kvm_mmu_page Mingwei Zhang
2023-09-12 18:45 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for ptep " Mingwei Zhang
2023-09-12 18:45 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for tdp_mmu_root_count into kvm_mmu_page Mingwei Zhang
2023-09-12 18:45 ` Mingwei Zhang [this message]
2023-09-12 18:45 ` [PATCH v4 6/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for tdp_mmu_page " Mingwei Zhang
2023-09-28 16:40 ` [PATCH v4 0/6] Update document description for kvm_mmu_page and kvm_mmu_page_role Sean Christopherson

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